Car-mover



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. CONANT, OF GENEVA LAKE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF T\VO- THIRDS TO ALBERT E. LYTLE, OF SAME PLACE, AND CARLOS A. COOK,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CAR-MOVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,801, dated March 14, 1882.

Application filed December 14, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE P. CONANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Geneva Lake, in the county of Walworth and 5 State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Car-Mover, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to car-movers for moving or starting cars on side tracks or other- I wise when desired, my object by this invention being to provide a device for moving or starting cars which shall combine simplicity and cheapness of construction with a simple, easy, and'efl'ective operation; and, further, to I provide a car-mover so constructed and arranged that by its use a powerful leverage may be applied to one of the wheels of a car and employed to move said car in either direction. This object I attain by the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved car-mover, and Fig. 2 is a view showing the manner of applying it to the wheel of a car.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the different views.

In the drawings, A represents a long lever, made preferably of wood to secure lightness, tapered off at one end to form a suitable han- 0 dle, and having secured to its inner or lower end, by means of a bolt or bolts or by other suitable means, ashoe, S, provided at its point with a V-shaped notch, c.

Hinged to lever A by bolt D is an arm, B, 3 5 'made also of wood and provided at its outer edge with a hook, C, which may be secured thereto by a loop, a, and bolt (1, in the manner shown in the drawings or in any other suitable manner.

E is a brace, bent as shown in Fig. 1, one end of which is bolted to the lever A, the other having a hole, through which passes the bolt D, the other end of said bolt being provided With a washer, b.

The arm B and hook C are so arranged with relation to the lever A and shoe S that when the said arm and lever are in line the distance from the inner face of the hook C to the point (No model.)

of the shoe S is a little less than the sum of the radii of the axlewheel and axle, of the car to be moved.

The operation of moving or starting a car with this device is as follows: The book 0 is hooked over the axle of the car to he moved in the manner shown in Fig.2, the wheel and axle being shown in dotted outlines, the groove 0 in the shoe S coming over the flange of the wheel. Upon pressing down upon the outer end of the lever A the notch c in shoe S impinges tightly on the flange of the wheel just below the line of the center, and the car moved by means ofthe leverage obtained by thelength ot' the lever A. If it is desired to move the car in the other direction, it is only necessary to remove the notch c from the flange of the wheel, and, without removing the hook C from the axle, lower the outer end of the lever A, throwing the shoe up and regrasping the flange of the wheel above the line of the center. Upon pulling up the lever A the same result will be accomplished as before, movingthe car in the opposite direction.

It will be seen by this device a car may be moved in either direction from either end of the car and as far as desired, the shoe S slipping around the wheel when the leveris moved in one direction and impinging the flange and moving the wheel when moved in the other.

Having described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a car-mover, the combination of thelever A, having a shoe, S, provided with V- shaped notch 0, the arm B, pivoted near the end of the lever and provided with hook C and loop a, and the brace E, one end of which is secured to the lever and the opposite end to the arm,substantially as shown and described.

2. In a car-mover, the combination of the hook C, loop a, and the arm B, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE P. CONANT.

I n presence of- ALBERT E. LYTLE, PAUL A. STALEY. 

